Whitmer: 'No plans to do any broad mandates' around vaccines, masks in schools

[MichMan]

4. She could if she wanted to

The legislature doesn't determine what state employees do other than their own staffs

The governor still has powers under a 1976 law to call an emergency for 28 days after which time the legislature must agree to continue it. The Dept of Health is also empowered to issue directives.

The only thing that the legislature was able to do was repeal a 1945 law that gave the governor power to declare an emergency for an indefinite amount of time. The repeal was somewhat symbolic because the Michigan SC had already ruled the 1945 law unconstitutional.